Guild Wars 2

I used a Norn character for the Living Story. During the first part where you attend the remembrance for Eir in Hoelbrak, your character meets Knut Whitebear. During his dialog he refers to the norn as “my people”. That phrasing would make sense if you’re playing a character of a different race, but when playing as a Norn, the phrasing should be “our people”. Even worse, a Norn leader saying “my people” to a Norn character could be interpreted as an intentional exclusion, possibly implying that your character is no longer worthy of being called a Norn, but clearly that isn’t the intent here.

It’s likely they only recorded a single dialog for this segment, and that they opted to go with the wording that worked for the largest number of races. However, I would have preferred to see a tailored Norn dialog for this moment where our Norn PC has returned to Holbrak to pay their respects to one of their earliest mentors. It would have also been nice to have some of the other NPC dialogs further tailored as well, but at least none of those seemed as awkward as Knut’s dialog.

Did the speech your commander gives at the remembrance contain the proper Norn localization? Because with my Asura she did mention the Eternal Alchemy. It was very nice.

The speech given by my Norn PC seemed fine. The issue is with part of the NPC dialog treating the Norn PC like an outsider.

This struck me oddly as well. For that matter, the Norn speech was “fine” but not particularly personal. You say that Eir was a “friend” but there’s no acknowledgment of her role as your mentor and supporter. And given that the Norn culture is supposed to be about building/spreading your legend in boastful gathering, it would have been nice if your character mentioned about something you did with Eir (e.g. slaying Zhaitan). Some of the NPCs do a decent job of this, would have been nice for you as well.